On May 26, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> Sure, but why wouldn't it be cheaper for e.g. NSF or NIH to fund an
> exact clone of the service Amazon plans to offer and provide it for
> free
> to its supported research groups (or rather, do bookkeeping but it is
> all internal bookkeeping, moving money from one pocket to another).
They do, TeraGrid (http://teragrid.org).
charlie